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Touching the heart with language
November 6, 2014Last week, I wrote that narrative-based discourse is more effective than rational argumentation for convincing any audience. One of...
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Learning, struggling, building character, and expanding our minds
October 17, 2014This week, some brief—and a bit more personal—reflections on the value of our mental challenges and struggles, and how...
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How to make our brains grow
October 10, 2014For a long time, I have believed that we learn the most from the tasks we struggle with, as opposed...
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Language learning and systems thinking
October 3, 2014I’ve been reading a lot this week about language study and what some researchers and writers are discovering about...
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Struggling to learn a language, growth mindsets, and another opening to systems thinking
September 18, 2014Last week, I referred to a Financial Times opinion piece by Simon Kuper about language learning, entitled “Learning another language? Don’t...